Thermal Comfort and Visual Comfort Inference for Residential Users

Indoor comfort can be described as a situation where building occupants are at a state of physical ease and well-being. Comfort is determined from the occupants’ perception of the environmental conditions according to their needs and objective senses. For indoor environments it is mainly defined by two factors, thermal and visual comfort. The proper regulation of thermal and visual conditions results in the elimination of any negative impact on the occupants’ execution of physical and cognitive activities [1]. The aim of the current study is the personalized estimation of the thermal and visual comfort for household occupants with the minimum level of intrusiveness as only a temperature/humidity and a luminance sensor are utilized. Both thermal and visual comfort are measured on the Ashrae 7-point range [2] (Table 1).